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Shaabani, Ahmad

Shaabani, Ahmad

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Shaabani (PhD, 1994, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran) is full professor, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), a member of Academy of Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran, and past-president of SBU. His prizes include Distinguished Professor of the Iran Universities selected by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran; Distinguished Professor selected by Iran's National Elites Foundation, (first edition of Allameh Tabatabaei Award); Prize of the International Kharazmi Festival in Basic Science; and Iranian Chemical Society’s Distinguished Chemist. Shaabani’s main expertise is the discovery and design of novel isocyanide-based multi-component reactions ( I-MCRs) in the synthesis of biologically important heterocyclic compounds, preparation of neoteric functional materials with functionalization/modified nano-materials and natural polymers via I-MCRs and applied in drug delivery and materials biomedical platform. He has published more than 350 publications including several review articles and book chapters and more than 100 presentations in conferences.
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Pourghasemi, Hamid Reza

Pourghasemi, Hamid Reza

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Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Hamid Reza Pourghasemi earned his PhD in watershed management engineering and sciences, from Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), in 2014. He also holds an MSc in watershed management engineering from TMU (2008), and a BSc in range and watershed engineering from Gorgan University (2004). His current scientific interests include landslides modelling, natural hazards, multi-hazard mapping, machine learning, and spatial modelling in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS). He is also skilled in application of data mining/machine learning techniques in natural and man-made hazards (flood, gully erosion, forest fire, and land subsidence); application of GIS and RS in natural resources and environment; application of spatial multi criteria evaluation (SMCE) and analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and geo-statistics in hydrology. For his scientific results he has been selected as the best educational professor at Shiraz University, College of Agriculture (2017); distinguished researcher (2017); distinguished youngest researcher (2018); and distinguished researcher (2019) all at Shiraz University. Also, he was selected as Highly Cited Researcher in 2019 by Web Of Science.
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TWAS-CAS Young Scientists Award for Frontier Science

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Former CAS and TWAS President Bai Chunli played a central role in creating the award.

The recipients receive USD10,000.

The subject rotates among the following fields of science: physical sciences (including physics and chemistry); astronomy and cosmology; earth sciences; mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Life Sciences. 

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Baharvand, Hossein

Baharvand, Hossein

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Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Baharvand (PhD, 2004, Khwarizmi University) is a Professor, Founder, and Director of Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, Tehran, Iran. His prizes include Mustafa Prize, TWAS Prize in Biology, UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize, Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) Prize in Biology, three Razi Research Awards from Iran Ministry of Health and Medical Education, two Khwarizmi International Awards from Iran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, two Dr. Hadavi’s Awards from Academy of Medical Sciences of Iran, Prominent Professor in 3rd term of Allameh Tabatabaei’s Award from Iran Vice Presidency for Science and Technology and National Elite Foundation, etc. He is a member of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy, International Society for Extracellular Vesicles. He is currently the editorial board member of eight international journals (e.g., Journal of Biological Chemistry and Scientific Reports from Nature Publishing Group).
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Erfani, Encieh

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Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Erfani was an assistant professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, Germany (2012). She got her master's in Iran before joining the High Energy Physics Diploma programme of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy, in 2007. After her Ph.D., she was a postdoc at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran, and worked as a visiting scientist at ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil under a TWAS fellowship, before joining IASBS in 2016. Her research area is cosmology. She studies the origin of the Universe, its evolution, and its components like dark matter and dark energy. Erfani obtained international awards such as the ICTP Diploma programme scholarship (2007), the Bonn-Cologne graduate school scholarship (2009), TWAS fellowship for Research and Advanced Training (2014, 2015). She is a junior associate of ICTP, Italy since 2017. She is passionate about teaching, promoting science in public, and helping young students, especially females. In April 2018 she co-organized the first workshop ever in physics in Afghanistan, under the Physics Without Fronti
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